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18 December 2018The Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM) has partnered up with Lloyd & Whyte to help occupational health (OH) professionals make sense of their finances for now and the future.
The...
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07 December 2018
Guest blog by Dr Justin Varney MBBS FFPH HonFFOM
Interim Strategy & Planning Lead, Business in the Community & National Strategic Advisor, Public Health England
On average two women each week in England and...
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07 December 2018
The Charlie Waller Memorial Trust has partnered with the Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM) to produce a leaflet, focused on looking after oneself, written specifically for occupational health professionals. You can download the leaflet here:...
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26 November 2018
Workplace Wellbeing - Theory, Strategy and Application for OH Teams
18th March 2019, 9.30-4.30
Venue: 20 Little Britain, London, EC1A 7DH
Join James Rind – Workplace Wellbeing...
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20 November 2018The Society of Occupational Medicine was last night recognised for outstanding dedication to the health and wellbeing of its staff in a special ceremony at City Hall, achieving a Commitment Award.
Alongside a number of other organisations, the SOM was awarded the...
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09 November 2018Employees are wrongly assuming that keeping active during leisure time will protect them from the danger of sitting for long periods when working in an office, a new study has found.
An active coach potato is a person who is physically active...
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06 November 2018Save the date for the Society of Occupational Medicine / Faculty of Occupational Medicine conference 'Occupational Health 2019', 17th - 19th June in Bristol.
For more information please visit the Occupational Health 2019 website.
We look forward...
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15 October 2018
Guest blog from Dr Lucy Wright, Chief Medical Officer Optima Health.
I was thinking the other day about mental health issues in the workplace. They make up the majority of the cases I see in clinic these days. Unwell and unhappy people who are not coping in work or in life or in both. Most of the people I see are female...
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05 October 2018We welcome the announcement made today by NHS chief Simon Stevens that there will be national funding for a new mental health support scheme which will cover all doctors working in the NHS. The scheme will cover approximately 110,000 more doctors, in addition to those already supported.
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26 September 2018
The Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) and the Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM) are running the following one-day training course in York: